By default Joomla sorts articles by title, which may be fine in some instances, however, most of the time people prefer to have them sorted by date with latest articles at the top. Normally, to do this you would have to click on Date heading twice. There is no built-in option to change default sort…

In some templates Joomla article navigation may appear in the middle bottom of your articles. This can be changed by making a small change to your template’s Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file. For example, if you use Rocket Theme Afterburner template all you need to do is add is folowing text to templates/rt_afterburner/css/light.css (actual css…

Was making changes to one of my Joomla websites’ menu system when bumped into a strange issue. There were types of menu systems, both two levels deep. First menu level in both cases level External URL index.php/category/subcategoryLinks to Category List layout index.php/category/articleLinks to Single Article With first type of menus everything was fine, however, second…

SPAM links in free Joomla templates Just to make it clear up front, this article is not about removing author credit links from templates with Creative Commons licenses. Authors do deserve credit for their work and their links should be left intact or adjusted to match site’s design. A friend of mine asked to create…

  If pagination on your Joomla website appears vertical instead of horizontal you need to add following code to your template CSS file: .pagination ul li{display: inline;padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;}    

One annoying thing with configuring Linksys or Cisco SPA VOIP phones remotely is that web administration interface doesn’t have option to reboot the phone. There is a little trick which allows to do exactly this though. Simply add /admin/reboot to the phone’s IP in web URL (e.g. http://192.168.0.51/admin/reboot) and providing there are no active calls,…

Problem Emails sent to GoDaddy mailbox bounces back with error similar to this:Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:email@domain.comTechnical details of permanent failure:Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that…

JoomGallery in one of the most powerful Joomla gallery extensions with countless number of options and settings. I won’t go into details on how JoomGallery works, If you are reading this you probably already familiar with this component. My aim was to give people an easy and quick way to browser images in Category View…

I’ve been experimenting with JoomGallery 2.0 ACL Beta Joomla extension trying to upload large number of images using FTP method. In general I was pretty impressed with this extension and it deals with large uploads pretty well. However, some images failed to import into the gallery with following errors: Warning: getimagesize(images/joomgallery/ftp_uploads/001 image 1.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed…

Infinite loop detected in JError error very often occurs after moving Joomla website to another hosting company or another server. Issue is normally caused by incorrect database or path settings in configuration.php file Open your configuration.php (it is located on your Joomla root folder) and double check settings, especially following lines: public $host public $user…

You may prefer not to have numbers in front of Article titles in Category list view. Joomla 1.5 doesn’t provide functionality to remove this.This can achieved via a simple core hack. Open file:components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php Scroll down to line 69 and delete (or comment out) following code:<td align=”right”>      <?php echo $this->pagination->getRowOffset( $item->count ); ?></td> Warning: This is a…

This morning (16 December 2011) a user came and complained that he wasn’t able to login into his iTunes account nor on this iPhone nor on the PC. He was worried account has been hacked or otherwise compromised. I quickly checked my own account and wasn’t be able to login either. Error in an iPhone…